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Episode 114: LANE KIFFEN RETURNS! LSU VS OLE MISS PREVIEW + NFL/ CFB Week 2/3 thoughts and previews! · You Don't Know Ball Podcast

• Isaac Rowe: What's going on? You don't know ball podcast nation. Another electric week of college football in the books. Plus, we just had a really great opening week of NFL. So we're coming off with a bunch of that we need to talk about, obviously. It's it's it was a loaded weekend. Hi what was it, highest scoring NFL week one in like forever? Yeah. Seriously, I didn't know that. Yeah. I mean I Tyler Shuck free for hundred four hundred and ten yards against Lions. So and we got Josh Allen next. So I'm not really feeling great. It's a win's a win. but a lot to get into, obviously. But I think we I think I wanna start with a a scheduled Schedule a session of what what our daily pick'ems were, our weekly pick'ems were. So I'm just gonna hand it over to Caleb right now. So Caleb, educate us of how we did last week. All right. Well, last week I'll I'll start by giving Alex his flowers. He had a bounce back week. Great week. The only picks you got wrong were Oklahoma, Minnesota, and Purdue. And honestly, all those games pretty toss up. except Minnesota, they got blown out. I guess a lot better than I thought. So good for y'all. Mississippi State fans out there. Shocked. But Alex goes five and three. He's now to eleven and eleven overall. Let's go. Back to five hundred. Let's go. Five hundred. I had the worst week. I went I went two and five. I the only picks I got right were Missouri and BYU. And you know, I'll just say Ohio State losing by one. That's tough. Iowa not covering the spread. I'm s really stupid. I shouldn't have I should have known that game was gonna be close. Oklahoma losing. I mean, we all picked Oklahoma to win. I don't feel stupid for p for picking that up. and then, you know, I just happened to lose Purdue, Texas State, and Minnesota. Like Texas State lost to a last second field goal to UTSA. So and you you got that one right. So I mean, very flippable. We're gonna have weeks like that sometimes, you know. my fantasy team won though, so that made up for it. There you go. Yep. Jack goes five and three. I'm at twelve and ten overall now. Jack goes five and three. So another great week for him. As you notice, he's not here. So we're gonna coin flip. Eight games for him today, so we'll see how that goes. And he don't even know what those games are. He was begging for us to send him the games. but he is now sixteen and six overall. Isaac goes four for four or four and four this week. interesting pick. You could have tied five and three with the rest of the boys, but you chose Arizona. I I know I felt I felt like Noah Fafito could've gotten it done and they played close. It was only Cal, so shout out Cal. He showed me a clip from that game of a kickoff. I don't know if you've seen it, but I think it was lat this week, but sa a BYU player put one of the Arizona players in a casket. I mean, I'm like, it was horrible. It was a ba it was horrible. The kid literally got knocked out. I'm pretty sure a few plays at that this week. Damaged my spirit about Arizona, but it's all right. Well, anyway, Isaac's now sixteen and six overall. So the kids at first are Isaac and Jack. They're tied. I'm in second and Alex is right behind me, but only one game out of third. So we got a really competitive, you know, we got two guys fighting at the top right now. and all it takes is, you know, one good week of strung out picks to to bring it back. As in terms of like viewers and fan picks, we had Connor Bushini participate yet again. He went three and five. so he's at a fifteen and five record overall. And then Skinner, he decided to play again. He also went three and five. So I mean these games were tough. Tough this week. I mean, I threw together a bet slip with all eight of mine. It was one dollar to win like six hundred. And, you know, Oklahoma ruined that. And I got every single other pick wrong. So it's like I might go back to what I was doing last year and just go against with what I thought. And It worked really well for me. I got second place. I was in first the whole s the whole year too until the end. Just took Davy to piss you off. Yeah. No, there was one week where we did twelve games. Or eleven or twelve games and Jack got eight of them right. And then he was immediately back up to where where he needed to be. But that those are the standings right now. And like the boys were saying, it was a really good week of games. You know, the Texas Ohio State game has to take the cake for me. That was That was a really fun game to watch in the first half too, especially as someone who chose Ohio State to win. Watching that first half, you there was no way you could have told me that Texas was gonna win. I was gonna like even believe it. I know they stormed back. They were down twenty going like is it going into the fourth or was it coming out of the four? They were down twenty three to three going into the fourth. Actually, no. Yeah. Cause they scored all their touchdowns in the fourth, I think. That is crazy. 'Cause they were on like the w five or something going into the fourth. And then they scored and then they scored. So they scored all their touchdowns in the first. I will say their defense held up extremely well. I mean, if you really think about it, you take away the two turnovers, freshman running back gets the first carry of the game, drops it. He's looking like me in my first game of football I ever played. Mind you, I had two fumbles that were picked up by the defense. So that tells you a little something. and you know, you're not supposed to win games after doing that and Cam Coleman had a drop. I mean, the ball was very catchable in his hands. Dude, that was almost a sweet catch, too. Like then, of course, he lands on the ground, collides with the ground, bounce the ball bounces right up into the Ohio Ohio State defenders' hands. That's like video games. Just stuff you can't predict happens in these games, and you know, the fact that they were still able to win is really impressive. So Texas is like I I don't I I don't even know who the better team is after watching that. I don't even I one team one team's got a coach that coaches to win, and one team has a coach that like is tries not to lose. He's got his foot on the guy on Star Sarkesian's neck. He's about to squeeze out Texas. Then they play from the rest of the game out. He plays not to lose. And that's the difference between Texas and Ohio State right now because Texas made all the plays they needed to get done to win that game. They they weren't scared of what how Arch was playing or or what the clock was. They had they had a mission and they went out and c completed it. Ohio State, on the other hand, got the lead and they just started cr coasting and like trying not to lose. And that every time you try not to lose, you end up losing anyways because you're you're just so like mentally you know like you can't make a mistake instead of just playing freely and having fun. Like you're not you're not going out there ex like going to make a play. You're going out there to run the clock down. It was embarrassing for Ryan Day, obviously. He he's he's had his own struggles of being called that he was born on third base and I think this all but supports that theory right now. Yes, he's got a national title under his belt. But still lost to Michigan but he's had a top three roster every year he's been there, he's got one national title out of it. And this year this year's starting to look a lot like one of those seasons again where he's got the best player in the entire college football world right now. He's a literal alien out there and he he can't figure out how to win games like when he has him in the in the bag. He's had he had that game in the bag. And his his plastic bag ripped when he was just not home. But I want to talk about is the how unfortunate I saw this today. Like every time they need they need a field goal like to seal it or win the game, they always hook it left. They always hook it left. I'm not even kidding. Like yeah, 'cause like if you go back to three years ago or four years ago or whatever it was against Georgia, hooked left, or I think it was hooked left. It was hooked left. then against Michigan in twenty twenty four. Pushed it left. Pushed it left. Against Indiana last year, pushed left. And then this year they haunt him again with a new kicker. It's not fielding and it was and he still has the same problem. I mean, it's just brutal. But I I heard this today from a mostly sports podcast. Ohio State fans and Ryan Day have like the weirdest relationship. Like they love him but they also like would kill him. Like how how does he I just don't get how he like has fans. Like how I don't get how you go to bed. How he goes to sleep. Yeah. How do you go to bed that night knowing that you have all the support of the fans, but also know that you're hated by all the fans at the same time. Right. Like any given day, those fans will just flip on you. Like if you lose to and granted respectful like respect to Ohio State and Texas for playing that game because you you're start you're gonna start to see less and less teams playing those type of games during the season. That's disappointing and sad. But at some point if you're looking at Ryan Day, you have to start winning those games with Like in the regular season, 'cause I don't know if you yes, they won the national title that year, but they lost to Oregon on the road and they played not to lose. Uh-huh. And then they they lost to Michigan and he played not to lose. And they lost to Michigan again and he played not to lose. He played Michigan again and lost like four times in a row, he played not to lose, and he lost. And even when they were almost double digit favorites, they played not to lose and they got their ass beat. Yep. So I mean, at some point, Ryan Day's gotta look in the mirror and be like, What are you gonna learn, man? He's not. I hope he never does. You can't you can't go out there with a decent lead and be like, you know what? The game's all but over. Let's just let's just coast out here. It's eight minutes left in the third, let's just coast it out. No. If you got a j just a solid team, or and then in this case, West not Western, Texas is an elite team and they got an elite quarterback. They got an elite skill set around him. You can never count a college football team with that kind of skill out of the game ever. Right. 'Cause that's what's gonna happen. You're g you're gonna get bit in the ass. As soon as you stop watching a college football game, it goes to the best game of the country. Yeah. In the year of the year. Like I remember watching it and it's or somebody showed me. It was like twenty three to three. I'm like, Yep, that game's over. I don't know why I picked Texas. And then we were on the way home. shout out, congratulations to Jackson and Paige Felix Drake. Hell of a wedding. Yeah. Great wedding. But we're on the way home and I see like twenty three seventeen, fifty seconds left, or twenty five seconds left. Texas is on Ohio State's four. I'm like, this is a game. Should tune into this one. Sh and I watched it on the way home and I saw I don't some sort of effort from whatever their quarter quarterback's name is to try to get them a field goal and they just suck. Julian. Yeah, Julian's saying bad. I mean not a great look for the play calling even at the end of that game was awful too. Yeah, yeah. Not a great not a great look. You're you're throwing Arthur Smith learned how to what a college football game is. You're throwing a ten yard drag route with no timeouts left, ten seconds left of the game, you're throwing a ten yard drag route. Yeah. Instead of going down the field. No. I mean that's it's kinda just like whatever. But congrats to Texas. You guys now the number one team in the country. guys got a couple more tough games on their schedule. I mean one of them one of them is obviously Alex's team. I don't know if you want to transition to you have anything else about Texas or Oklahoma? No. Not Texas or Ohio State? No. All right. Well we'll transition to Alex's team who had a hell of a response to go against this week. I never doubted them. yeah? Never. How do you feel how do you feel about this week than you did like last week after we recorded it? This week I'm you know I'm kind of frustrated like every time Michigan beats a good team, it's just the other team sucks. So but No, I'm proud of how Michigan responded after l they beat Western two last week. I still think Bryce is still You know, Bryce is being Bryce. He d he didn't have a turnover this past this past game. So did fumble. He did have one fumble. Did he fumble? He fumbled but he got it. He picked it right up. right. He did fumble. Yeah. So no turnovers, but still had some ball i ball security issues. eighty six yards on the on the ground isn't too bad for a quarterback. Eighty seven. Okay. So not too bad for a quarterback. I would love to see him throw at least for one one eleven's not gonna win football games all the time. For passing. I would love to see him get to like two hundred at one point. But, you know, we have the we have all the talent at the receiving core. It's just you know, that's n I guess that's just not Michigan's identity is the throw of the rock, especially after this past week that we we beat Oklahoma with just being more physical than them. I and I'm very proud I mean, I knew the defense switching to defense now. I knew the defense was gonna be fine. I mean that defense is stout. A defense is one of the bet I'm one I would say one of the best in the country. Not the best, but one of the best in the country. Elite. not many teams are gonna, you know, have the great success like they I Oklahoma did at sometimes, but like and I was very proud of Hasio Jair Hill got a pick and you know, Dominic Dom Nickels. Dom Nichols. I mean, he's just being a dog this so far this beginning of the season. He has like eleven QB pressures. I mean it's and he's just starting, so very proud of the Michigan team this year this week, even though I did not pick them for pick'ems at least because I was you know, didn't wanna embarrass myself and still wanna stay in contention, but I ended up doing that anyway. So yeah, overall I'm very proud of how the we s responded after I could tell you someone who's not really happy about how they responded. I know. Same right here. Yeah. I mean, it is what it is. I Michigan's still gonna be a good team. And you know, the old saying goes, is the biggest improvement you see out of college football teams is from week one to two. Yeah. So you know, good for them. Way to get back on the horse, and obviously being at home, I knew that would like that would help probably come back to haunt me for picking Oklahoma. And I think deep down in my gut. Like I knew I probably should have picked Michigan. Like 'cause we didn't see the real Michigan in week one. I think we saw the real Bryce Underwood and he just takes the whole headline 'cause he's the quarterback. Yeah. But the whole team played so much better this entire week. Yeah. it was just more disciplined. Well, defensively we were more disciplined than we were the last year. Yeah. And I think I think defensively, if it wasn't Western and Brock Lowry, they probably would have scored a couple of touchdowns. Right. And maybe that game turns out different. But Michigan made the adjustments they had to. Yeah. So I don't know. I thought I thought it was a it was a good game. I didn't watch it, but I watched the highlights and I was entertained. You know, at the end of the day, like I got no dog in the fight. Do I like Michigan? No, not really. Do I like Oklahoma? No, not really. But, you know, it's I wanted Oklahoma to win. They didn't. I'm moving on from it. I also like Oklahoma. Like that's like my thing. I like John Matir too. He's cool. I like John Matthew. He did have a really bad game. If John Matir played for Michigan, man. John Matir mid tier. Hey, I don't care what anybody says. John Matir is a good quarterback. He had a rough game, yes, but like still, that kid is a dog. I mean, he gets a He gets a helicopter hit, gets back up. All right, even though it's holding. This is kinda how I'm looking at this game. I thought Michigan played like extremely well. I can cause Oklahoma's defense, it's probably one of the best in the country. Like probably it's like the elite of the elite. Brent Venables at the helm of the whole defensive play calling. He's gonna make it hell for any offense in the college football world. Like any of Like I we're gonna see Texas and Oklahoma play in a couple of weeks, and I guarantee you that Bryce is Bryce Arch is gonna struggle. yeah. He's going to struggle. Mm-hmm. And that's just kinda the only quarterbacks we really see like succeed or have any sort of success are quarterbacks that have been in the system or been has a sh a lot of game experience like like a Ty Simpson when he and they were still down by twenty points against Oklahoma in that playoff game last season. Like Oklahoma's defense is good. Yep. And I can I'm not gonna hit on Bryce too hard for not having a great passing game. Like he still went he went nine for seventeen for a hundred and eleven yards, a hundred and twelve hundred well whatever it was, and no t no interceptions. And he had nine carries for eighty seven yards on the ground and a touchdown. Like that he's being he was a difference maker in that game 'cause just because he's a an athlete and he took care of the ball. And that's something we didn't see from at all last year or this week. I mean, even go back to last season when they played Oklahoma, he struggled even reading the defense. He had no idea. He was lost. Yeah. And I think just seeing a little bit of growth in Bryce from yes, from last season, but from week one to week two, it was it was im impressive for I mean he a week a week viewpoint of it. So he had some good throws. I mean, one of them was to one was to J J. Buchanan for about I don't know, what did you say, forty yards, something like I wouldn't say that I he read the field. That was a good ball. But I think his best throw was his first one. Yeah. He pumped thick to the screen and he hits JJ up the sideline. That was pretty that was a great one. And then the one the when he saw Savion Heider. that too. scramble drill. You scramble drill. And Savion went up the went up the sideline. Got a nice first down catch for the move of the chains. I mean i it's growth, yes, but I you know, if if I'm gonna stay here and say that if we can win If it was crunch time and we had had to have it, would Bryce be the would Bryce Underwood be the one to lead us to a win? No. I mean, I still think that he can do it. And he has Well he did do it against Western. Yeah, he did do it. Well Come on. I I think honestly in the next couple of weeks he will be better. I do think Bryce is getting to the point where we can hit I can say like, Hey, let's let's sling the rock a little bit. This guy's elite. Yeah. Nah, he's not elite. He's good. He's he's going to be he's gonna be good. He's s he's the second game in his sophomore year. And shot hey, shout out to all the Michigan players saying stay on that side. I've been on your side. I just I'm just a podcast host, but I've been on your side. I think looking at this game though, I think Oklahoma has some really like some real issues on offense. I think John Mid tier needs to needs to figure it out because he had all this hype going into this game and he goes out and throws. A bunch of meatball subs across the middle that he gets a tornado hit. Like it he did not have a good game. He did not show that he could he was an elite quarterback before his thumb injury. I mean, two last season we're looking at September. He's in the Heisman talk. This year, it's just the same old shit. With the healthy thumb thumb. The only thing he really has impressed anybody with is about how jacked he looks. That's all I hear. He does look a lot bigger than I and if you look like last season and what he looked like compared to now, I'm like Damn, is that the same thing? But that doesn't that doesn't prevent you from throwing No, I know, but he looks more like Turkey sandwiches across the middle. I know, but he looks more of a fullback now than a quarterback. I know. He's gonna be playing linebacker in the league or something. I'm just getting he's I have no idea, but I think Oklahoma's still everybody's saying that Oklahoma's gonna suck this year. I yes, they have the hardest schedule and the remaining of the entire like season. But I still think they're gonna be solid. I think I think Oklahoma's gonna be a tough team to To be 'cause I mean, we watched them get shut out from Texas last year and we said, we're counting them out, they're done. And then they ended up going to the playoffs. Right. And having a lead and almost beating Alabama. So I don't know. It's gonna be interesting. I I I wanna see I wanna see more out of this Michigan team than see how they grow over the pr the season. But I also wanna see like how Oklahoma responds because it's it's gonna be i if John Mateer wants to be back and not have his alter ego John mid tier Show up again. He's gotta fix his issues too, because that was a w the probably the worst ball out of the entire weekend. I he didn't even throw it at it wasn't even close. It was like two yards behind the receiver. And I'm I'm kinda going to the fac point of we've got to see where the ga these teams end up is. But like both Ohio State and Texas and Michigan and Oklahoma need each other to be do well the rest of the season. And I guess you can make the same thing about Western. They all need those teams to do well to have a chance to get to the playoff or be in contention for anything. So, yeah, I think I like what Shar Sark said this afternoon, like eight, I hope they don't get knocked for playing this game. Like that w those were two good teams. They were up twenty three to n twenty three to three and just couldn't finish the job. But that's a that nobody's saying that Ohio State isn't good top five in the country right now. They just had a unfortunate loss. So Yeah. They got as close as you could get in in like Longhor Longhorn City too. So I think that should go into it as well. Like they're still gonna be ranked in the top ten, I bet. No, yeah, they are. And they're ranked six. And that's honestly they went from one to six off a one one point loss. It's not terrible. Yeah. And I I do think we need to start seeing Less teams like if the the teams are playing the big games like this and it's a close game and they're they lose by a like seven to like whatever how many points like in one score game. Mm-hmm. I don't think they should be punished as hard as as a team who loses in a it's a top ten affair, but they lose by thirty. Yeah. Like that's that's just not a good sample size of what the the team could be. But I don't know. Overall those those games are two pretty good games and I'm excited to see what they can do in the in the what are you doing, Alex. Kids hungry. Dude. Speaking of a team that did drop Oregon, obviously. I mean I who would have seen that coming. No, yeah, Drew Mestemaker's a dog, bro. After they lost to Tulsa the week before. I can't believe that. I can't believe how bad they looked. So soft. Not Oklahoma State, Oregon. Oregon Oregon soft the last two weeks. They played bad last week against Boise. And then they come out and play even worse against Drew Mestmaker and the the Cowboys. They might be this year's like LSU. No, they might be this year's Penn State. If they don't figure it out, which granted, how the hell are they still ranked? They barely beat Boise and then they go out and lose against Oklahoma Western isn't ranked. And Western's Western's not ranked, but then they went to Oklahoma State and got their ass handed them. Like that game wasn't close. They had five hundred and twenty seven yards total offense. Yeah, I know. But that game's not close if Oklahoma State doesn't turn it over twice for pick sixes. Like those are that's fourteen points of Oregon's thirty one. Yeah. Like that's a That's a two like a two three score game if Oregon doesn't do that. So I don't know. I think I don't I'm shocked that Oregon's still in the top twenty five. And I'm even more shocked that Oklahoma State's getting top twenty five votes over Western. Like they lost to Lulane last week or Tulsa. I think it was Tulsa. Tulsa. Yeah. And that and they looked awful doing it. So you can't be like, they beat Oregon. Throw let's throw some votes votes at him. If they win, if they win out for the rest of the season, yeah, I think they should get a sh I just think that's kind of a weird game too. Like I didn't even realize that they were playing Oklahoma State this week. And I just think that's a weird matchup. Like I don't know. I just Oregon and a big twelve team. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. I d I don't know, man. It was surprising to me. And like it just kinda games like this really shed light on the voting process for the top twenty five. Like you were just saying, like you bring up Western and like there's even though Western lost, Oklahoma State won, they're still so close in the voting and it's just like it brings up a good discussion of h how the voting process really works for that. Who's allowed to vote, wh what criteria, or is there like some sort of mathematical is there a way you can do it with just straight numbers and, you know, maybe ten percent emotional vote ninety percent. Well the AP voters some of the AP voters voters don't even watch football. I swear. Like there was this girl that's like I didn't catch the game that I think it was last year, but like Yeah, there was that was the whole thing Florida Florida lost and like I still voted for them because they're a good team. Like you didn't even watch they lost. They lost they th they put up thirteen points doing it. They lost. No, but Yeah, I don't know. I think I think the top twenty five like voters need to be reevaluated because it's we're seeing this too many times where like a team will have one good emotional week and like Michigan, they won a game and they drop down eight spots. Yes, it was Western Michigan, but you c you could you could take a look at Western and be like, Well, they play really solid. I guess a a really good Michigan team. Yeah. Right. They're not your average Mac school. They're the best school in the Mac. Right. They're Mac champions. They were They were ten and three last year. Yeah. They were like that was a good football team. And Michigan, granted, it took them a Hail Mary to win. And then Michigan follows up that win of beating out top number eleven Oklahoma. And now they're b right back where they started at nineteen. I Oklahoma State gets loses to Tulsa. Right. And then they have more votes than Western. That doesn't make any sense because Western just dominated their opponent this week and they have Boise State coming up in a week two weeks. And you know how electric that game would be if Western's ranked the Boise's ranked? I wanna go. Like that would be really cool, but no, but it's because Boise and and Western lost their opening games by a combined I mean, I don't know how much Boise lost by. I think it was like a score and then Boise lost to Oregon by seven. Yeah, and then Western lost by a hail mi like a miracle. Yeah. It's it's ridiculous. It's like, come on, what are we talking about? These are two of the best teams of the country and and Oklahoma State's getting all the hype right now because they've just beat number six Oregon, who looked dog shit the first two weeks. Yeah. So mind you, Oklahoma was O or Oregon was number two when they played Boise, right? Yeah. Yeah. And so they dropped down to six. I can't is Oregon still ranked? They're twenty one. Yeah, twenty one. They shouldn't be ranked. Mm-mm. But who knows? Maybe Oregon figured it out and they go on a tear the next I don't know. I mean, I've seen I've seen teams do it before. I mean, my own team did it. We lost to NIU sixteen, fourteen, and we end we're in January we're in the national title playing for the the whole thing. Yeah. So it's not impossible to do. But right now, Oregon should not be ranked. And Oklahoma should not have more votes than no Oklahoma State should not have more votes than Western or Boise. And That's just kinda how I'm looking at it. It's week three's a big week then. They gotta win. They gotta win. I I could see it being like a twenty four, twenty five. I don't know I don't think they rank both of them. No, I think that one of them one of them will get ranked. It's gonna be Boise. Boise's gonna be the one that gets that gets ranked because they've played Oregon and then they've they beat the shit out of Well historic historically they are you know, one of the one of the best G five teams. They're the G five team of the playoffs. That's like that's their that's their MO. Yeah. But then when Boise State comes to town in two weeks, they're you're like you said, they're playing for the playoff spot and who knows, maybe Western B's the rank number twenty five after that win. Or if they do win. Right. What a what a job by the schedule makers putting Boise Boise coming to Kalmazou. That's hard. I mean the other team that we thought was gonna be a playoff team with UNLV Yeah. They lost to Memphis and then they barely beat Hawaii the next week. And then they just got dominated. I don't know who they played, but it was like 41 6. Yeah, but by a team that it should have never beaten North Texas. Yeah, North Texas. Another group of five powerhouses. They had their entire team transfer. Yeah. North Texas didn't have anybody in January. And now they have they beat UNLV. So this just shows how crazy college football is and how wide open it is, but it also shows how stupid and idiotic that the people around it are. And there's nothing we can do to fix it because what are we gonna do? AI, here. Rank these teams based off what you know. Yeah. It's we're still gonna be like, well, this AI has never watched a football game in its life. So it doesn't matter what we say. College football playoff rankings. We all don't know ball. Yeah. Yep. And it's only one fight know the rule. Might not might know ball and he doesn't even he's not even on the earth right now. It's God. I thought you were about to say Jack. I thought you were like he's not even here right now. Jack's not even here right now. He is a prediction champ, so Right. I'll talk well we'll talk of like a here's a Isaac Roe two minutes session. Notre Dame won fifty two nothing. Hell yeah. Yeah. I mean not much to say there. CJ Carr got had reception like a bunch of deep balls and it got the receivers in. A bunch of receivers had so we had we saw Bettis, we saw Fitzgerald, we saw all they did plays, we saw Greyhouse show up. We saw Fajon show up. We saw all our g Gilbert had a really nice touchdown grab, head tap. It was like just CJ Carr passing clinic this week this Saturday. And going into the Michigan State game makes me feel confident that we can we can win both ways. 'Cause coming out of the Wisconsin game, I was a little worried about our passing game, but was happy with our running game. And now I'm I mean I'm feeling even on both right now, even though we did struggle to run the ball last week against Rice, but it's Rice. We're coming off a short week. We're probably we're gonna fix it. We're gonna tune it up for Michigan State, obviously. It's a rivalry game, so I'm looking forward to that. I'll be there. You don't know ball will We'll be in Ann Arbor and South Bend. Yeah, correct. Maybe he'll be somewhere. Caleb I'll be in GR. Yeah. Caleb might be in South Bend. We don't know game time decision. Yeah, that probably is a game G T D, so we'll see. LSU struggled in the first half against Louisiana Tech. Sam Levitt threw three picks in the first half. One of them was a pick six. my god. Yeah. And they got old miss coming to town. Ole Miss handled business. They won like 47 9 or something like that, 47 3. Who else? Kentucky. Damn, they almost had them. They almost had them. They were winning at the half, weren't they? Bama won that one forty five seventeen. Minchie looked good in the for a little bit and then he's he sold. Stunk it up. He sold and he's Meatball subs. Yep. I still believe that Kentucky is like heavily improved though. I think that like they're gonna be good. Alabama, I mean, Keelon Russell's not playing at at the level that they need to be, but everybody else around him is. So they they're making up for the his misproduction and then what's Michigan State's obviously two and for all our Spartan fans. They they beat a really elite Eastern Michigan school. Noah Kim makes his return. It was really kinda the legendary. How bad did he do? I don't even he played all right. He does not play great. He did score a touchdown. But they went thirty to twenty. Is that what the score? It was thirty one to seven. And it w at the half it was like fourteen seven. So Wow. Yeah. But Michigan State is showing problem like Promises of being a decent school again. That's really exciting for the Spartan fans. College football is better when they're decent. They they are, but that that period of time I think is gonna be long gone because right before NIL era really took off, they had a great squad. They it was a homegrown program in 2021, that magical year for them, until they lost to Purdue and it all went to shit. but then after that. I feel like they have this one really stud player. Like we saw we saw it with Nick Marsh last year, Aiden Childs the last two years. And then the right even though I wouldn't call him like a stud, but he was definitely like the face of their team. This year I think it's like Nick Sorce or something like that. Like who he they have like some maybe his name's not Nick. Their running back is really good. Yeah, well, yeah, their running back's good and they have a really good edge defender on or maybe he's an outside linebacker. Is that you talk about? Isn't it? Kenny Sores. Kenny Sores Junior. He's their best player on defense, but I unfortunately feel like Michigan State's just this farm school now for all their top talents just gonna get outpaid to go somewhere else. So I don't I don't know what teams like Rutgers, Michigan State, Wisconsin, like what are these teams in the Big Ten going to do? What are they gonna do? UCLA, you could argue that they're in the same boat. They've beat they beat Cal and U San Diego State past two weeks. But I do think UCLA's got a little bit more money. I think they've got more aura. Definitely more pull. More I I do think they have more pull. Just being on the West Coast too helps. But what like MSU, what are they going to do? I I I have no clue. Because outside like obviously Michigan State's got a really good basketball program and Tom has been there. But when he leaves, what what are they gonna do? Like what's good what's the appeal of going to Michigan State basketball when Tom the guy who made that program and built it left? Yeah. And that kind of he better be like involved somehow. Well, I'm s I'm saying like he better have over the past like five or so years, like have has been like teaching someone like, hey, like, this is our system, like just drilling another version of himself into whoever's gonna take the helm after him. But you know, hopefully Izzo's got a couple more good years coaching left in him. I know he's in his seventies, so he gets he every single game you hear hear him interview afterward, he's barely got his voice left. It's like Kinda hurts to hear him talk almost 'cause his voice is just so like scratchy. Yeah. I mean, if you ever wanna ask someone how influential Tom Mizzo was to Michigan State, they got a football facility named after him. And he's not even a football coach. He's a basketball coach. Nothing even related. His closest thing that you got related to football was Draymond Green. Yeah. I I just think like it's hard for these schools like Michigan State and Ructors and like w in They are the big ten schools. Like they're the lower end of the big ten schools. Imagine what these max schools are like, what these other group of five teams are like, what what they're going to face. Because as soon as one team has one good player, I mean, w I don't think this is ever gonna happen, but Kamario Taylor, Mississippi State's quarterback, probably one of the most electric c players in the country. What's stopping Oregon or Bama or any of the schools? Any of the big time schools. We saw it with Sam Levitt. Sam Levit like Seriously, like what's stopping L S U from throwing ten million in his face and be Here, you wanna come here and play? Well just imagine what they're gonna do to all the Western I mean. Well, yeah, Lance Taylor's about to get coach or about to get paid. Yeah, he's about to get poached too. Like seriously him. He's having a good season. He won't be at Western next year. Yeah. And Western, mind you, Western just lost their athletic directed to Michigan State as well. So wow. So it's gonna be tough for all the schools, honestly. If Even I don't even think the big schools are out of the picture of this. Like a bigger school can come get if yours if you have the money and your system works better than what the school you're at now, like if mis let's just say Bryce is sick of hitting the ball off every play. Like what's stopping him from going to LSU going lane kiffin? a proven quarterback whisper whisperer. Yeah. I mean that there's nothing gonna the temptation of going there. It's impossible. So sorry that's our NIL rant for the next couple you know what, no more NIL talk for the rest of the episode. How about that? That's fine. I wish I got NIL. I don't I don't really know what else happened in college football. I mean, I think it was a good week. We I mean this week's gonna be a big week for O Oco old miss in LSU. We'll talk about that game at the end when we have our pick ems. But any anything else? Anything that comes to mind screamed at ya? No Lions suck. Yeah, the in the NFL, Lions, man. That's my transition. I was gonna talk about the NFL, but go ahead. Yeah, go ahead. No, no, you. No, you. I I we we got lucky, man. I mean the if that if that what should have been a fumble scoopin' score was given to the Saints, which it should have been. It should have been. I mean we lose. I I It's just same old Lions, man. I I feel like nothing's changed. I really don't think they're kinda like the Pistons. I really don't see how we got better or worse in the offseason. So I'm thinking it's just another like honestly, we look like an eight and eight team. Yeah. If we're struggling against the Saints at home. But maybe it's like college, we see the improvement from week one to week two. My coworker was saying that's what happens when you don't play the starters in the preseason too. Because none of our starters played in the preseason. Probably, yeah, that's true. Besides maybe some of the secondary. I just don't understand how our secondary can be so bad. And honestly, they weren't even playing that bad. And like for two and a half quarters, we we looked elite on defense. It was twenty one seven. They the only time they scored was a first half drive that they had or no, they didn't even score in the first half. Like we seriously were dominating them on defense and we went up twenty on one nothing, and we felt like we were gonna cruise to a victory, and then It just felt like they were chipping away at us. they w they're starting to show like our insec our our secondary sh started to show their cards a little bit like they are not that great and 'cause we got rid of Terry and Arnold and we got and Kirby Joseph is her and Brian Branch is her. We're missing people that made our secondary decent two years ago and now we're ass. So and I as the game went on it just sh shows like We still have the same problems on defense with Kevin Shepherd. And even even though our linebacker plays improved and our D line pass rush game is improved, we are still getting cooked for by Tyler Shuck for four hundred and ten yards. And we have Josh Allen next. Yeah. It's I didn't even think like our offense looked amazing. Like I don't I mean, obviously they had their bright spots and they all the skilled players of J Mo caught the ball. Yeah. But if J Mo would have caught the ball or like I don't know. I just I wasn't very impressed with the win. I'll say that. I'm the it was just another meh. It was a meh win. It was like i the game had no aura to it almost. Like I I literally Sunday came around, you know, you're hungover or whatever. It's like you got the Lions playing today. It's week one. Let's go. I just didn't feel any of that excitement at all. No, no. I was I was looking at like my fantasy team throughout like Red Z I had Red Zone up and I was just like Man, like the the Panthers Bears game was fun. That was fun. That was a fun game to watch. 59 points. Did you hear what Caleb said after that? The head coach. Hey, yeah, you guys have a great defense. Yeah. but what was what else was I gonna say about the Lions? I don't know. Jameer Gibbs though, did well for my fantasy team. Keep it up. Best running back in the league, bro. It did make me sad when I saw like a highlight from David Montgomery scoring for Texas. I was like, damn. Yeah. Good for though. Good for though. Dude, is Pacheco healthy yet? No, he just he's actually he's out for twelve weeks. Wow. Okay. Just had surgery for something. Good timing back or something like that. So who was the backup back then? Sailor? yeah. Whoever who was a who was the white guy back there that was Well, Craig Reynolds is on that team, isn't he? No. He left? Damn. Or he retired or something. We cut him, I know. But it's it's some I don't know what his name is. I know what you're talking about though. 'Cause he had he was stealing Gibbs' carries a bit there. But overall I thought we had a decent first half. Like we we're up fourteen something or twenty one nothing and like midway through their third quarter, we s they have s the Saints found something in us and got a lot to work on for this Thursday night game. Short week to do too. what I was gonna say was Kevin Shepard, I think he's electing to go kind of old school, like with he he wants the dominant pass he he values the pass rush over the secondary. Right. Which I think can work, but when our secondary is so injured and bad, like the good pass rush doesn't matter. Yeah. And also I don't even think our pass rush is that good. I think honestly we're just we just get so screwed with injuries. Like literally. Like like you just mentioned Pacheco's out. I didn't even know that. So there goes our back up back. And Pacheco was a starter for a Super Bowl team. He was. You know, like I mean it's I don't even know he was hurt with. I mean I it's r it's ridiculous, man. Also, we should add this game to the to the predictions. We can do the Monday night games. It's g it's coming this episode was coming out Friday. We're gonna be giving we're predicting the Monday night game. I do wanna talk about one more NFL game if if it's over. I was gonna talk about two or three. the Vikings and the Packers. Kyler Murray. What the hell, dude? I mean, did you guys see his pick on his first throw? First throw but did you even see like how bad it looked? I d I s I watched it but I don't I don't remember I mean it honestly he if you could make anything look like a four foot seven guys throwing a ball up, like just hope for like for a prayer, Kyler Murray did it. Like it looked horrible. He looked the mo that was the most unathletic play I've ever seen Kyler Murray do ever in my entire life. It was h it was horrible. And then Carson Wentz comes in. That pissed me off because if Carson Wentz should be J J. out there. Yeah. Carson if Carson Wentz got hurt, J J would come in. Yeah. Because before the game they they ruled J J. out. But he was an emergency quarterback so he got the dress. So yeah, I was kinda pissed that Carson did so well, but Still lost. Still no, they won. they did. I thought I thought it showed the Packers more. They started spamming mid blitz the rest of the game, and Jordan Love had no idea what to do. Like this is this comes after so whoever the sideline reporter is for Fox Sports, like talk to Matt LaFor. And he's like, How how much easier does it make for when you have a quarterback that can handle the pressure so well when the Vikings are throwing all these pressure looks and de in these blitzes? And he's like Well, when you got a hell of a quarterback that could handle it all, it it makes your job a whole lot easier. Now I swear to God, like five minutes left in the third, the Vikings just said, it, we're just gonna throw mid blitz at him. And the rest of the game was a shit show for him. There was fumbles, there was picks, there was sacks. It was just ridiculous. R and the Vikings scored thirty nine points and they were down twenty to something. J Jett has had his like first touchdown at like I think he had one last year. Two last year. Two on Sunday. Two on Sunday. I mean, great game by him, but J J would have done better. I posted somebody on you don't ball's TikTok 'cause I thought it was funny. I like we're literally just watching like this this I don't know if you ever played Madden or college football. I ran that against you. I ran mid blitz all the time. Point five seconds from the time the quarterback gets the ball to look at your check down and throw it, or you're getting sacked or it's getting tipped or whatever. And that's seriously what it was like what we were watching and that four four Vikings defense, man, has always been my the whole time I've known NFL has always just been good at that at that stuff. They always have elite linebackers, a good strong safety. Vikings defense is what keeps them in seasons and that's why you see them with double digit wins and seasons all the time, man. Especially when it comes to crunch time. I guess that that's when they really start to tune it up and it it gots the Packers. And I if you're a Packers fan, you gotta be feeling like, shit. Like you fell you fell all the highs and then now you feel really low about what Did you did you know that Jordan Love, that was his first like his first interception at US Bank Stadium really ever. This was the two of them, I think. Yeah. Well his two re ball subs. Now yeah, he he had two of those. Two of those hot subs over there, but he DoorDash one on the ground. So Yeah, it was bad. I mean It's gonna be a really interesting season for this division. Yeah, it will be Especially with how good the Bears looked. But granted they did play the Panthers. But I mean there are stretches when the Bears defense looks awful too. Like they still have problems on defense. They just they're just gonna win every game because they could score sixty points a game. I mean it doesn't really matter if you can't stop So I guess we'll see what happens in the NFC North. I mean, it's gonna be it's gonna be a a long season if the Lions keep playing the way they do and we'll see I mean we'll see what happens. NFC South or is it NFC yeah, NFC South. I think they all lost. Falcons, Buccaneers, Saints, Saints, Panthers. They all lost. Another another another tank division, dude. Buccaneers are gonna host a playoff game seven after winning seven games. Again. The Buccaneers, like that entire division is like I'm granted, the Panthers did play the Rams close last year. Like it was like deep they hosted them. They still they only lost by like three. But that I swear to God, a sneaky like NSV South team will get into the playoffs at like nine and seven. Nine and seven. No, not even, dude. Like when what what was the year the Buccaneers hosted? Yeah. And Tom Brady won the Super Bowl that year, didn't he? Or no? No, they they were actually good that year. but I'm saying like the division was so bad the a team that was seven and eight or seven and nine. I know you it was the it was the NFC East. It was the Giants, Eagles, commanders. Maybe it was the Eagles who hosted it then. God, I know you were talking about 'cause that NFC East like division was god awful that year. 'Cause it was the Giants were bad, the Cowboys were bad. Eagles were bad and the commanders were either the Eagles or Commanders. I bet it was probably the Commanders. Honestly, probably COVID year commanders. Yeah, it was. It was Chase Young and Tyler Hanick Tyler Taylor Hannic Heineken or whatever his name was. I g 'cause I do remember that play watching that playoff game they hosted. That was crazy. Was that Brady's year? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was that COVID season. it's still ridiculous. But I but I think the Buccaneers only went ten and seven too, didn't they, that year? I don't think they were that good. I bet the Bucks won like 13 games. I don't remember that. I think they did I think they went like thirteen and three or something. They were good. Yeah, they were good. But yeah, I remember that was those. Those look good, dude. Dude, that looks really nice. Why does why did they get all the nice shit? They're getting the college football game day treatment right now. Look at all that stuff. All right. Who do you guys got this game? Should we get into predictions now? yeah, let's get into it. I mean, I've got nothing else for Another C it was just fun. Yeah, it's good to have football back. We saw all the stars score. Man, my multiple team did not. My fantasy team sucked. Who you guys got in this NFL special NFL game here. I think I'm gonna rock give it the Broncos to spoil I think Broncos too. Damn. I I've been thinking about this all day. I'm like, I r I I like the Broncos I like Bo Nicks. I think he's a good quarterback and I think he he's been he proved it last year, and I think the Broncos are a good team. They got that really good defense with Benito and Surtain or whatever, but Something Matrick Mahomes, man. Like if they got if the Chiefs got Mahomes, then they got a chance. Yep. And if we haven't seen him what he looks like after that injury, so but it. I'm going with the Browns. I'm going to I'm going the Browns. Broncos. Broncos for sure. I think the Broncos are gonna win this one. Okay. All right. I might ch I haven't written it down yet, but I might change to the Chiefs. You might as well Well w what's someone flip a coin. We'll see what Jack's Jack's got. I think I am gonna go with the Chiefs. Actually. Gab's going with the Chiefs. It's the start of T Travis Kelsey's last year. It's Monday night football. We've seen it with the Lions, but you just meant like I it did show up there like Bonex is coming back off an injury. So who knows what he's gonna look like in actual game. That's true. I trust I trust Patty Mahomes more than heads is who do you think is favored to win here? Probably Chiefs. Probably Chiefs. Heads is Chiefs, Broncos is Tails. All right, Jack, this is your pick right here. I that's tails right Yeah, Broncos. He's going Broncos. Alright. Wait, did you write mine in yet? No. I just wrote mine in. I'm locked in on Jeeves. Give me the Jeeves. Okay. I'm sticking with the Broncos. you guys. Go bronze. Yeah, he did. Damn it! Why'd you change? I don't know. I I thought I c talked myself out of it. In and out of the Well now we're back onto college football stuff. 22 Houston at Texas Tech, number 13. I did not like what I saw at Texas Tech these last two weeks, and I really like what I saw at Houston. They looked good. I'm taking Houston in this one. You know I think Texas Tech blows out. Are they at Texas Tech? Yeah. Texas Tech is not quarterback right now and it's kinda embarrassing. I'm gonna go I'm gonna go Texas Tech, but I do like how Houston looks, so I won't be surprised if they lose. Or if they win. All I put just put the quarter over. No, no, no. No, we got we need the real thing. That dude, that gave you heads like four times in a row. I didn't lose a single one. Dude, that gave you a never run. All right. All right. So he heads is tech. Got tails. Heads. Aw damn. Heads it is. Isaac's just saying stuff, bro. Okay, so we got you're the only one rocking Houston. Alright, well, there's my little wolf. alright. East Carolina at Old Dominion. I'll tell you what, give me my pirates to upset old Dominion today. Because In the one save file I have on Connor's Xbox, I played for them. ECU. Really? Nice. It was a five star. Started at UCLA, played so bad, transferred out to ECU. you know, give me ECU, man. I I don't know really anything about either of the teams, but the game's probably gonna be close. So it really can come down to anything. And I like ECU being in being A stinker here for Old Dominion's home home opener. Well, I like Old Dominion, so it's give me old Dominion. Colton Joltz is old school, so you know. Yeah, I'd there I played with Old Dominion on my college football game and I led them to a playoff. And I think I w mmm, I don't think I won a national championship, but I stunned Florida at home. Florida came to us in a playoff game. That was the elect most electric game ever. I I like recorded it on my phone and like, so here goes Old Dominion, fourth and goal to say you to the Gators and like pullback dive for a touchdown. This is best play. I'm going Old Dominion. Dominion just because I used to coach there. So all right. Now Jack's pick, heads will be Old Dominion. Tails. Jack's rocking ECU with the kid. Alright. Alright, we got some we got some variety here. Coastal Carolina at Delaware. Now Delaware had a close game with Vanderbilt last week. but I'm not saying Vanderbilt is I'm not saying that's very impressive. So I'm gonna go Coastal Carolina here. I think they have a they have a better chance of winning that game and I just think the Delaware game was a fluke. In the the games that I've seen Coastal Carolina, they lost a s by seven to West Virginia. And I've seen Delaware lose by a a score to V Vanderbilt and I'm not sure how good Vanderbilt is. Not. everything in me wants to take Delaware to win this game, but Did you write it in already? I've Damn. You know what? Give me Delaware. I think they will win this game again. I should have been loyal to the Winged Helmets. Damn it. I been loyal to I mean, how many times have we been able to pick a Delaware a Delaware winged helmet here in this podcast? So give me Delaware. Last year, the one game we had Delaware for I picked them and I got it right. Nice. And you know, everything Everything in me is also telling me to take Delaware. So I'm gonna do it. All right. So I'm gonna do I 'cause I already chose ECU. I don't I I do think old Dominion has a good chance to win that one. So it's like I don't know. I I choosing one away game, one home there. Who's heads? Heads would be Delaware. Jack's rocking coastal. Yeah, two two. He's gonna see his picks and be so pissed. Wait, someone's making edit says, no one asked me the game. So Mississippi State at South Carolina. This is like the sneaky game of the week, right? I do I do think it is, and I'll tell you what. Mississippi State, considering what they just did to Minnesota, I like their odds here. And I th I think they can go in there. And take down the star power of South Carolina. They just played an away game too. I think they're on an away tear right now. Like there there's something that honestly, I think they would have less of a chance to win if they're at home. I think there's something in human nature that makes you just feel more natural and play more relaxed when you're at home. But when they're away, they're gonna come out guns blazing. They're two and Yep. Give me Mississippi State, man. I like their odds. I'm gonna follow you there with that, Caleb. I just think that the Mississippi State's quarterback is playing at an extremely high level. I mean, just seeing how the ball flies flies off his his arm is just remarkable. Yeah, he's got a he's got a cannon. Yeah, the kid is the kid is playing lights out. I mean not to discredit what South Carolina's done. They got they got Lenoris Sellers. Like he's a equally good quarterback with Nick Harbour and like they're both two and schools. But when I look at it, I d I don't it's like dead even for me. Mississippi State, they're playing for a rank yeah ranking right here. Yeah. If they how bad did they beat Minnesota? Fifty nine or two kicked their out. Thirty one seven. Thirty one seven? Okay. Yeah, it was it wasn't close. And you know, honestly, I'm not sure what South Carolina did last week. Does anybody know? Like I don't know how South Carolina They won forty-five to nine against Townsend. And Townsend's like not even like remotely competitive compared to what Mississippi State did. And they they looked pr impressive. I'm gonna take Mississippi State, but I'd not expect you guys to take it with me. So now it's now we're all taking Mississippi State. So not really. Well Jack yeah, Jack hates South Carolina. So if he gets I hope he gets stuck with South Carolina. South Carolina is the head's pick here. They're supposed to win. What is it, Alex? It's heads. Okay. South Carolina. you are stuck with it, Jack. Get hey, pull up the clip of like him talking shit about South Carolina. Dude, we have three separate Carolina teams in here. East Carolina, coastal, and south. That's Carolina. Wyoming at central Michigan. I'm also going Wyoming. I don't I'm just not impressed with what Central has put on the field lately. I mean they had two close games and they lo I think they won one and lost one. So Well, I wasn't impressed with what Wyoming did against Colorado State. So give me Central. Give me the Chippewas. See what Jack does. let me see where who the home team is. I think it would be Or sorry, let me see. Okay, CMU's favored, so heads would be CMU. That's a as a head. That is a heads. All right. Jack rocking with me. Y'all rocking Wyoming. Next game. SMU number 19 at Louisville, number 23. Could really good game here. Two dynamic quarterbacks going head to head. You know, it's hard to say again. I can see both teams doing really well, but I'm gonna I'm gonna go with Louisville here. I think just like the Just how they performed last week and then I obviously against Ole Miss is just Really more impressive than what SMU did against Florida State and whoever they played last week. So I'm gonna take Louisville here. I was on the fence. I almost said SMU, but I think they're gonna get it done, Louisville. I think I think for me, the only thing that's holding me back from picking SMU is that Kevin Jennings threw three interceptions against Florida State and they only won that game by three. And Florida State is not that talented right now. Yes, they have guys, but they're not the most talented team they're gonna see all season and they still struggled. Yeah. So and I really like what Louisville did against Hold Middle. miss and they they followed up with another dominant win against Villanova last week. So I must say I must say Louisville here too. I think Keenholz gets it done. Dude shoot man y'all making it hard for me. Yeah, I feel like SMU being ranked as high as they are is really throwing me off. I think I'm I think I'm also gonna rock Louisville just from how they how well they played old miss. So they on like actually watching them just look like the better team. and that's unfortunate they have a loss to their resume already, so that can kind of throw things off a bit. But Louisville they got they got you know SMU has that cushion. Louisville doesn't. They're at home, they need this. yeah. So give me Louisville. Yeah, I mean honestly when you look at it, it's Louisville lost by three to a top ten team in this country and they played them through the wire. And then they I think and now they're at home. Like it's it's gonna be a tough game for SMU to come out alive in, in my opinion. Right. All right, coin flip heads will be Louisville. Jack, he better be hoping for Louisville. I he would probably tail Louisville with us. Give him SMU. what a flip. That was dramatic. Heads. it's Louisville. Damn it. Hey, he already did get the South Carolina one, so that's that's pretty funny. All right, the one we've all been waiting for. LSU Ole Miss. I'll s I'll start this one because I went last last time. I told myself I'm not taking both home teams in the top twenty-five matchups. So give me LSU to come in there and shock the world. You know, it it's gonna be one of those games where it's a shame that either team has to lose. But, you know, LSU they've they've proven more that like they can play two really good halves of football. Ole Miss, they struggled a little bit in the first half against Louisville and it took Trinidad Chambliss going super superman mode. Yep. I would argue LSU obviously they have a better team. Sucks that they're not at home because then this pick would be a lot easier for me. But I genuinely think L SU can do can do this and you know they're eight and seven. They're basically even teams. It's not gonna matter who's at home really too much. It's just all about the talent on the field. Something about the Tigers is making me wanna take here. You want me to go? Go ahead. you know, everything in my body wants me to take Ole Miss here, but and just because they're home and they have the storyline, they have the quarterback, they have the running back, they have everything going for them. They had the 13 wins last year, just like Lane, but just like Lane said, that the Ole Miss has all the pressure on them right now. Because Lane's coming in with his seven-win team last year, and they're they're on a hot streak here. And As much as I hate it, I think L S U's gonna get it done this pet next this next weekend. I I hate that Sam Levitt's a former L S U quarterback, but you know, I got I I just don't think Lane goes there and doesn't get the job done with how much talent they have on both sides of the ball. We just saw I mean, L SU looks like a top ten and top five team and it's it's gonna be a tough one for s Oll Miss and their defense to stop that offense. So Yeah. You know, emotionally everything in me wants to say old mess. Everything in me because I just want them to win that game. But after seeing like what L SU's put on tape the last two weeks, it does feel like the more logical take to take L SU. But that again, I'm not gonna let you I I th I was gonna be the only one taking L SU here. But I wanna be a w lone wolf here if Jack doesn't do it. I'm taking Ole Miss to win the game. I think Trinidad goes Superman. Yeah, you typed out real fast. Hey, well, I mean Isaac, if I were you, I would do the same thing, just for standing purposes. Yeah, this is a great lone wolf pick. I came in here thinking I was gonna pick Ole Miss though. I'm gonna tell you I was gonna pick Ole Miss. Just until that last second, you're like, no. Switch it up a little bit. I think Trinidad goes Superman. I'm eleven eleven, I gotta get back in here. Trinidad's gonna go Superman mode. Yeah, right. And Pete Golem's gonna get a signature win over his his old hot head coach, so or boss. So Get it you rebels get the shit done, dude. Swear to god. Let me see who's alright. Okay. LSU is actually heads here. They're favored. So. Alright, here we go. Let's see if Isaac's gonna be a lone wolf. Heads! He is! Wow. We can redo it. No, no. No, that's a great toss. We've had tosses go all over the place if it's a competitor. That's allowed. We're part of the couch. We're part of the couch. You know. And then finally, West Virginia at Virginia. Give me Virginia to smoke that spread of 10 points. Yeah, Virginia is smoking the Also taking the s smoke the spread here. I th I think, yeah. wait, I got a Virginia. I convinced myself of not saying West Virginia was gonna cover it because I just looked at who they played. So here we go. heads will be heads will say Virginia's covering. Yeah. Tails. Jack's going lone wolf, West Virginia to cover. Okay. He's gonna be so pissed. Watch it work out for him though. That's how it did for you, Isaac. I know, honestly, yeah. It is a rivalry game, though. You know, I don't think it's that crazy state. I mean it's I don't think it's that crazy to think West Virginia will cover, but if they only if they only win or lose by ten, then it's a wash. Yeah. So that's what we did with MSU and Toledo. But yeah, those are our pick-'ems this week. it's always fun to do it with y'all. So, you know, looking forward to it, seeing how this plays out. I need a big week here, so So do I. You know, the the standings are going to shake up a lot after this week. There's nine goddamn games on here. This is a make or break week for a lot of us, I feel like. And we're not all not a lot of us, not a lot of games we're all on the same side. So I it's like two and two before you split it. Yeah. Yeah, no, we are very split this week. I mean that's good good Diversity amongst us. Diversity. No, there is like none of us four. The only same four teams we all picked was Louisville. So if we get that wrong, we're all gonna look stupid. We already have the Oklahoma game wrong, but so far we're we're two for three on our picks where all four of us choose the same team. Good season though. We're three weeks in. Yeah. Yeah, the fact that we're all like either five hundred or have winning records is really impressive. Yeah, it's actually impressive. Yeah. Wait compared to compared to last year. my god, it was so terrible. I was looking at it last year, I'm like, Why why would I pick that? Why would I do that? Yeah. All right. So some sad news to end the episode off. This might be the last episode you see the the iconic blue couch. Couch is going away. It is iconic at this point. The iconic blue couch of this Ever since we Started going in person recording. This is this couch has been here with us. So this has been my spot the whole time. New couch alert. Is it a s is it like a sectional like this or is it it's got it somewhat similar to that? It's got a recliner in it, so it's cool. So better feet angles for you guys. Improvements were all about improvements. Sadness to excitement here. Instead of it being down here, it could be up here. But no, no, just wanted to say that it's just a sad but kind of going that far. It's not going that far. It's going to Alex. Hey, you guys are we may have an episode there one day. Who knows? One day. One day. All right. Final thoughts. Caleb, go. you know, UCLA, they got a big game coming up against Purdue. I would love to just see more first half dominance from them. That's that's my main thing. And also. Happy football's back. So now it's what? We have football every single night except Tuesday and Wednesdays or something. Something like that, pretty much. Until Maction starts. So really we only have like two more weeks or something like that. And then we have football every night but Wednesday. Yeah, we have something to watch every night. That's awesome. Moreau it might be taking a back seat. It already has. Alex. you know, I'm excited that football is back, like Caleb said. it's nice to have your Saturdays and Sundays. something to watch on T V, especially after a nice Saturday night or a Friday night or whatever you do. Michigan, I hope you keep the Pedal on the gas. I want you to score over twelve or f seventeen points this next weekend. I would love to see I would love just to see our double our our season total of thirty points. total. So I would like to see Michigan take it to UTEP. I mean Oklahoma did a week before. last we I mean last week and yeah, keep the season rolling. Bryce, figure it out and go blue. all right. So like ever like the last two people have said, I mean it kinda feels like that that scene where life is good in the Incredibles movie, like everything's like dulling heavy. Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's kinda how life is. Friday nights, you're having a good time. Saturday mornings, you're getting ready for the college game day. Weather's still good. I just moved into a new house, so that's been fun, you know. Weather's starting to get chilly, so the the sweatshirts are starting to break gonna breaking out a little bit, so that's nice. But yeah, I'm just happy that football's back and then you get to wake up to Sunday football. It's just it's the best time of the year. September is the best div and to about mid October. No, mid November is that time of the year. And then it just shit. I would say I would say from September all the way through December is like peak. Like I it's not right after Christmas. It's not my per it's not my personal peak, but 'cause I just love summertime so much. But It it's a great time. Yeah. I once January comes around, like hate winter. Kill me. Hate winter. I can move New Year's E New Year's Day and New Year's Eve is like the last amount of peak winter. I don't even think that's peak. I think that's that's like that's like that's like dreadful almost. It's like it's like blissful dread. Like you're just waiting for the new year to come, then you wake up on New Year's Day and you're like This sucks. Well at least you got you got some playoff games and big bowl games you got. And then that after that it's it. That's done. That gets over. No, it's just cold. Yeah, that's just cold and miserable. And then you're like you don't want to go anywhere. It's cool that the NFL goes for as long as they do though. They go until like at least mid February. Yeah, middle of Feb early February. And then NBA starts in like mid October now. Yeah. Which is sick. Pistons are the first game of the season. That's pretty sweet. Pistons and Celtics. Ooh, nice. They play at home at like three o three PM though. That's so bad. That is so bad. Like who's gonna go to that? It's gonna be empty. But all right. That's gonna do it for this episode. wait one more thing. Go Irish, going to Mich Nerd Michigan State game. Hopefully. Hoping for a good outcome. Go Irish. I'll be at the UTEP game this weekend. Maybe Kayle will be there. I know Connor is probably gonna be there, so maybe we'll get a special appearance from him on the first time for the first time in the podcast. That'd be sick. He he's killing it in the pick'ems right now. So he is. But go Irish. Looking forward to that. And that's gonna do it for this episode. Thank you for tuning in as always. We appreciate you guys and your support. And remember we don't know ball. You don't know ball. We all don't know ball. We'll see you in the next one. Peace. Go blue.